Word: wealthiest
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...which, as the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Committee on Corrections reported this summer, "Street crime is less prevalent and far smaller in dollar value than white collar and organized crime." Low income neighborhoods do not contain criminal elements that are any more immoral or amoral than those of the wealthiest suburbs with high degrees of "community." Street hoods are merely society's biggest losers, with neither the polish nor position to be respectable white collar criminals. They are intellectually, psychologically and economically vulnerable and frustrated. A housebreaker does not rationally compute the cost-benefit analysis of a robbery...
...foundations of astonishing technical achievements and immense material progress, the like of which no society or nation has been able to equal or surpass. In this relatively short period, America has succeeded in transforming a huge continent, blessed with almost unlimited natural resources, from the simplest beginnings into the wealthiest and most powerful country the world has seen...
Getty got a good start toward his fortune, but it was his own drive and peculiar genius that elevated him to the ranks of the world's wealthiest. The son of a prosperous Minneapolis lawyer who decided to wildcat for oil in Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) in 1903, Jean Paul spent two years at the University of California and another two years at Oxford before he reported to work in his father's firm. By that time, buoyed by a lucky early strike, George F. Getty had made several million and formed a thriving company. With his father...
Died. Jean Paul Getty, 83, oil tycoon and one of the world s wealthiest men; of heart failure; in Surrey, England (see BUSINESS...
...ones, address one another as "citizen" and "citizeness," and wear a form of national dress-batik sarongs for women, tunic suits for men. Absolute wealth has tended to follow absolute power; Mobutu-whose personal interests include property in Spain and Switzerland -has been widely described as one of the wealthiest...